Kim Williams Interview
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“I want this podcast to be so much better. I listen to it as well as Jake Knapps Breakfast one and ..... I dunno.... I just don't feel I learn anything new. I am open to discovering that I am just not listening correctly but for example, Kim Williams; she an amazing expert, has a vast amount of knowledge and experience, but the content was so general and I could summarize the whole hour like this "we try very hard to advocate for the user and for them to be able to get achieve their goal and the way we do that is through empathy using holistic design systems that faciliate communication between various stakeholders.......zzzzz". At one point she said something like, "..we conduct user studies to find out what people are thinking...so we took it up a notch and went bolder..." but there is no detail as to how any of these studies were executed. If I had a podcast for 5 mins instead of 45 mins that literally just explained in detail one small minute detail of her process I would have walked away with something to consider and research further but with 45 mins of general buzz words and an overview of her process, I just got so frustrated wanting just something, anything that I could take away. As a UXD that has worked professionally in UXD roles after certification in 2014, I understand the process. I am assuming that a lot of UXDs listen to this podcast as they are working of have an interest in the field of UXD. We know the process. We have seen 500 diagrams of the high level process teams take when working on experiences for clients and I feel that this and almost every presentation, meetup, conference, podcast & article just go over and over the same high level process with teasers that the speaker may just reveal some insight into something you could try or experiment with and then BOOM it's taken away with a side tracked extension to that line of thought and on to the next general overview statement. I just can't listen to podcasts anymore.
When I am being interviewed for roles I have to explain in explicit detail my steps, intentions, outcomes, assumoptions, methodology...etc of my case study to proove I know what I am doing and how I can adapt to various projects that I may be designing for with this potential employer. Why can't podcasts be like an interview for a job. "Hello Kim, please tell us explicitly how you have used or built a design system in the past with reference to your roadmap stages and milestones." Now that is a question. Imainge the content you would get from that 1 question.
In fairness the interviewer did try to get more specific and I appreciate soe great questions but why cover soooo many topics. Choose one and get granular with it so we have something of benefit to digest ("Do one thing and do it well".... right?)
Also in fairness, Kim is a much more experienced PD than I and is worthy of a lot more accolade in the UX world than I could or have ever been able to obtain so this is just my ranty opinion to get it off my chest and I am sure I am just not interpreting the information as well as other people (it is highly rated). I think I am partly correct and partly just not suited to being told information in such an elaborate and bulky way and I need to simply experiment hands on as my main way of digesting information and learning from it.
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